"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"Your silence gives consent." 

"You cannot conceive the many without the one."